Last night I finished scanning my books, other than the odd copy that I’ve loaned out and some knitting books/booklets that don’t have barcodes or ISBNs. For the morbidly curious, you can take a peek at my library – I recommend filtering by a keyword tag, such as “knitting” or “cycling.” (Yes, Van, you will find something if you filter by “zombies.”)

I was even inspired to pull out the boxes of books from under my bed! Wanna take a peek?

Perhaps you need a bit more info about what you’re seeing (beyond that I have enough wrapping paper for the next five years)? About eight years ago, my brother helped me build a queen-size futon frame (well, ok, he did 95% of the work – thanks, Matt!). This particular frame turns all the space under the futon into dust-free storage – I can fit a total of 24 copy paper boxes under the frame, with space on top of the boxes for a layer of luggage, ski poles, wrapping paper, snowshoes (on the other side, sorry) and a broomball stick (helpfully keeping me from being crushed by the futon as I rummage around). The amount of storage this adds to my wee condo is considerable and much appreciated. When in use, the futon rests on two removable slatted sections:

Sorry the picture is blurry – I was attempting to balance on one foot and take the picture while using my other foot to prevent the futon from falling back into place. It didn’t go so well, but I think the bruising will be minimal. 😉

I saw something similar on a design show once (I think it was the show ‘neat’) where they had underbed storage like that. It flipped up from the bottom and had some sort of piston hinges like the back of an suv would. Very handy! I could always do with more places to ‘hide’ things!

Ok, ok – I’ll return “Time Travelers Wife” and all the Janet Evanovich books. Sorry!!Last night I dreamt that you had to scan all the pages of each book in to the computer so you could read them that way. Tedious? Um – yeah!!

We used to have sour grape for our pup’s….they loved it!
Your a bad influence. I went and checked out that pattern book on line and had to have one, ordered that as well as Big Chill. The wish knit list grows!

OMGosh Chris, I love your futon. Your brother is great, do you hire him out? Seriously, I would buy a woodworking pattern of your futon if it were available.
Thanks for the bitter apple link. Evanrude has a cord fetish too. He has already destroyed my a few, including the one that plugged into my hubby’s fiber optic snowman (ok, ok, so secretly I was glad to see it go) and has been eyeballing computer cords.

Like Margene I need one for CDs. But I need one for books, too.
Hmm…do they have one for yarn?
(sigh)
You are way too organized. I love the futon arrangement – would you do a favor? Photo the complete futon? As in put together with the frame in site? I’m still ruminating on the “sitting piece” for my den…so I’m curious – the storage you describe would be very very nice to have!
(((hugs)))